United States Foreign Relations/International Cold War
Professor Nguyen specializes in the study of the United States in the world, with spatial focus on Southeast Asia and temporal interest in the Cold War. She is currently working two projects. The first is a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive and the second explores the role of gender, people's diplomacy, and transnational networks of anti-war activism during the Vietnam War.
She is the author of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, which won the Society for Military History (SMH) Edward M. Coffman Prize, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Stuart L. Bernath Prize, the UKY Department of History Alice S. Hallam Prize, was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize, and earned her an invitation to participate in the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Professor Nguyen is the General Editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War (3 vols.) and she and Professor Paul T. Chamberlin are the Co-Editors of the "Cambridge Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations" Series.
Selected Fellowships:
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National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant, 2016
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Henry Chauncey Jr '57 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Grand Strategy, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2009-2010
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John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military and International History, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2008-2009
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Predoctoral Fellowship, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, 2005-2006
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Predoctoral Fellowship, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, 2004-2005
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Fulbright Scholar, Hanoi, Vietnam, Institute of International Education, 2001-2002
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Smith-Richardson Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 1998-2004
Current Students
PhD students:
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Bethany Sharpe (co-advisor)
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Jonathan Chilcote (co-advisor)
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Cody Foster
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Frances Martin
MA students:
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Christian Tyler Ruth (co-advisor)
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Arin Arnold (co-advisor)